Laser fundamentals and applications

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Laser fundamentals and applications. A Laser is a device that emits light within a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. Because of its extremely high degree of monochromaticity, coherence, directionality, polarization, and power, etc.,

laser radiation or light has been widely used in high-resolution spectroscopy and imaging, chemistry, optical communications, biomedicine, defense industries, etc.

This course is intended for students who need to understand the basic principles of how lasers work and their main properties. This course provides the scholars a thoroughgoing knowledge of the fundamentals of lasers: their unique properties, their operations, and their applications.

It will equip the students with information on how a coherent light is generated and amplified, the techniques after different lasers design, and applications of laser in spectroscopy, chemistry, medicine, biology, military, and other areas.

 

Laser fundamentals and applications  INTENDED AUDIENCE: Senior UG and PG students

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What Will You Learn?

  • Week 1: Introduction; Importance: why laser?, unique properties of lasers; Brief history of laser development ; Laser basics
  • Week 2: Concept of stimulated emission; Einstein’s coefficients; Population inversion; Amplification of stimulated emission; Laser instrumentation fundamentals: Cavity, resonator and pumping processes; Gain medium
  • Week 3: Coherent radiation, standing waves and modes; The kinetics of laser emission; Rate equations; Threshold conditions; Pulsed and continuous wave laser emission; Various pulsing techniques: cavity dumping, Q-switching and mode-locking
  • Week 4: Transitions, lifetimes and linewidths: Three level laser, Four-level laser, emission linewidth; Properties of laser light: monochromaticity, spatial and temporal coherence, intensity, beam-width Similarity transforms,
  • Week 5: Laser sources; different types of lasers; Laser instrumentation details
  • Week 6: Applications of lasers in spectroscopy, chemistry, biology, medical sciences and other fields
  • Week 7: Applications of lasers in spectroscopy, chemistry, biology, medical sciences and other fields
  • Week 8: Applications of lasers in spectroscopy, chemistry, biology, medical sciences and other fields Summary of the course

Course Content

Laser : Fundamentals and Applications

  • Laser safety and summary
    00:00
  • Non Linear Optics
    00:00
  • Introduction to Non Linear Optics
    00:00
  • Chemical and Dye LASERs
    00:00
  • Gas LASERs
    00:00
  • Semiconductor LASERs and Gas LASERs
    00:00
  • Solid state LASERs
    00:00
  • Passive Mode – locking and Types of LASERs
    00:00
  • Mode – locking (contd.)
    00:00
  • 2nd order Nonlinear optics
    00:00
  • Non-linear optical processes
    00:00
  • Lasers in Material sciences and engineering and Optical Communications
    00:00
  • Lasers in Medical Sciences
    00:00
  • Laser Induced Chemistry and Ultrafast chemical Dynamics
    00:00
  • Laser Induced Chemistry
    00:00
  • Application of Laser: Enrichment of Isotope
    00:00
  • Application of Laser: Laser Spectroscopy
    00:00
  • Application of LASER: LIDAR
    00:00
  • Aspects of SHG and Application of non-linear optics
    00:00
  • Mode – locking
    00:00
  • Mode Locking
    00:00
  • Passive Q-switching, Mode-Locking
    00:00
  • Components of LASERs
    00:00
  • 3-level System and 4-level system
    00:00
  • Population inversion, 2-level system and 3-level system
    00:00
  • Calculation of Einsteins coefficient
    31:36
  • Einsteins Concept of stimulated emission
    00:00
  • Interaction of Light with matter
    00:00
  • Interaction of Light with matter
    00:00
  • LASER and its history
    00:00
  • Modes of LASER cavity and standing waves
    00:00
  • Transverse Modes of LASER cavity
    00:00
  • Q-switching and Pockels effect
    00:00
  • Q-switching
    00:00
  • Cavity Dumping
    00:00
  • Some Numerical problem
    00:00
  • Continuous and Pulsed Lasers
    00:00
  • Properties of Laser: Coherence and Monochromaticity
    00:00
  • Properties of Laser: Directionality and Intensity
    00:00
  • Threshold Condition
    00:00
  • Unique properties of LASERs and their applications
    00:00

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